US Rep. Gary Peters expected to announce bid for Senate seat

1:55 PM,
Apr. 29, 2013

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters is pictured during a roundtable discussion at Jay Enn Corporation in Troy in 2010.

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Todd Spangler
Detroit Free Press

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters is expected to announce his intention to run for Michigan's soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday in Rochester Hills.

A Democratic source told the Free Press today that Peters, who had been widely expected to run, would announce his intentions and visit several other cities around the state - including Flint, Lansing and Grand Rapids - this week.

Peters, a 54-year-old Democrat and former state senator and Michigan Lottery commissioner, is currently in his third term in Congress, winning in the new Detroit-based 14th congressional district in 2012, even ...